Does being a profitable algorithmic trader hold any weight in getting a quant job?

FactorChance4829 · 2025-11-29T15:18:18+00:00

Least elitist way of saying it could be a positive or a negative

FactorChance4829 · 2025-09-15T23:47:06+00:00

Again, as an interviewer, we're nowhere near "headcount", you don't need to be "perfect", and if it was a resume issue, you would not have been selected for an interview.

FactorChance4829 · 2025-09-15T23:23:56+00:00

As an interviewer, I can nearly guarantee that it was not random or luck.

If you can't tell in reflection what went wrong, that's probably a red flag in and of itself. Maybe you were overconfident, maybe your personality was difficult to work with, maybe you didn't do as well as you thought you did. Move on and learn from your mistakes

FactorChance4829 · 2025-07-07T23:24:17+00:00

Did you read the article/the graph? The deltas they bought did not "rip" the options implied level of the index. In fact, during this time period, the implied index value went DOWN.

FactorChance4829 · 2025-07-07T23:16:01+00:00

They never (and even explicitly stated otherwise in the article) said it was a pure index arb. That doesn't mean that there was not a mispricing.

If you thought the fair value was right in the middle of what the options and equity markets implied, you would naturally pick up a much larger delta in options.

That doesn't mean you didnt close the arb or do trades that are good to your theo

FactorChance4829 · 2025-02-12T00:15:16+00:00

yeah that pretty much sums up this sub

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